Unlike most Florida fish, sheepshead actually thrive in chilly water and can provide steady action for anyone persistent enough to seek them out. ...more

January 18, 2009

Every day for almost two years, Annie Horne could not help but notice the rundown, vacant condominium complex that flanked the Melech Hospice House in Temple Terrace where she is employed. ...more

September 10, 2008

While it has slowed down recently, Florida's growth has boomed in recent years. Unfortunately, this growth outpaced our ability or willingness to address its impacts. Schools, roads, water supplies are all strained. And nowhere is this crisis more apparent than in Florida's sewage treatment infrastructure. ...more

August 5, 2008

The average size of tarpon along Florida's west coast has steadily increased since the $50 kill-tag regulation was put in place in 1989. And the results of this conservation measure are nowhere more evident than at Boca Grande Pass, where fish in excess of 200 pounds - once nearly unheard of - are now landed every summer season. ...more

July 18, 2008

Milk, check. Bread, check. And don't forget $100 million in backup generators. ...more

May 13, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Lake Como Family Nudist Resort has opened its new RV and mobile home park, South Grove Village, the product of a four-year redevelopment project. ...more

February 8, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Lake Como Family Nudist Resort has opened its new RV and mobile home park, South Grove Village, the product of a four-year redevelopment project. To showcase the park, Lake Como will have a free open house from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. ...more

February 7, 2008

City officials have been scratching their heads for weeks trying to figure out how this small municipality has been losing millions of gallons of water every month. ...more

December 17, 2007

There are only a couple of sprinkler heads on the irrigation system at a U.S. 19 carwash next to Wal-Mart, enough to water several small patches of grass. ...more

November 15, 2007

There's a little nomad in all of us. And the concept of carrying your home with you as you travel still has a central appeal, as evidenced by the tens of millions of Americans who leave behind their air conditioning, HDTV and e-mail hookups to trek off to the woods each year. (Though, these days, thanks to air-cards, both the accursed e-mail and the Internet may be only as far away as a squeal of the modem.) ...more

November 2, 2007